Free Public lecture - Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: Critiques and Alternatives

The controversy that was triggered by the publication of DSM5 is a sign of a paradigm under threat. Lucy Johnstone will outline the national and international context to the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology’s Position Statement on Classification (2013), which calls for systems of categorisation that are not based on a ‘disease’ model. She will argue that we already have viable alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis which, in essence, are about listening to people’s stories. She will discuss the growing UK interest in psychological formulation as one alternative to psychiatric diagnosis, and will describe a number of projects based on these principles which are helping to bring about culture change within mental health services. 

Speaker

Dr Lucy Johnstone has worked in adult mental health settings for many years and is the author of 'Users and abusers of psychiatry' (2000) and, with Rudi Dallos, co-editor of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy' (2nd edn 2013). She is former Course Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate, and has delivered training on using formulation in teams to many CMHTs and assessment teams. She was lead author for the ‘Good practice guidelines on the use of psychological formulation’ (DCP 2011.)

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